FINOkoyeAnother ArcGis story map used to help tell an important story but *not* supported/hosted by the originating organisation!!
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#museumTech Thread commencing…
In July I’ll be giving a talk half-introducing and half-evaluating the use of ArcGIS StoryMaps for narratives based on museum collections.
Now, my own use case is more as a prototyping tool but (having done the usual literature/product review when starting the Black Atlantic project) as I’m seeing more and more around, my critical queer feminist anti-racist lens can’t help note +
+ a repeated pattern - they are all (including my own although like I said, that will ultimately become a fully open source, coded collections infrastructure) on “peripheral” topics of the respective museums.
Tbclear, the “peripheral” is a label with an emergent quality - it’s not +
+ a critique of whether the institution ‘cares’ about critical/diverse perspectives or ‘really means’ it when it comes to showcasing marginalised perspectives. From a critical tech analysis, it’s solely a label I give when I’m actually seeing, or reading or engaging with something that doesn’t have the structural #museumTech support of eg being hosted on the web server or getting content/design updates.
Is there anything fundamentally wrong with using ArcGIS StoryMaps? Beyond the issue of hosting content for the public on platforms at the whim of private enterprise (an issue that still exists for open source and publicly funded platforms), not especially.
It is an interesting tell - often +
+ we want to show our organisations that we can be lean, agile, savvy and practical but it’s when what we make stays at the level of (good quality) proof of concept that it gets a bit… tense.
Also the V&A Dundee is pretty fab. If they’d had earrings in the shop, I might have actually been moved enough to buy them (still low-key boycotting but the only way to effectively do that is not buying their amazing earrings which… hm. Well, in life a price must always be paid).